Carl Correns

Carl Correns

Carl Correns was born in September 1864 in Munich. was a German botanist and geneticist. He is notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, and for his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s earlier paper on that subject. He also discovered cytoplasmic inheritance , an important extension of Mendel’s theories. Which demonstrated the existence of extra-chromosomal factors on phenotype. He died in Feb. 14, 1933, Berlin